Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

  • Birthday: 1912-05-09
  • Deathday: 1963-06-18
  • Place of birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
  • Also know as: Pedro Armendariz

Biography

Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.

Filmography

The Brute

1953

As Pedro

El Zorro de Jalisco

1941

As Leonardo Torres

The Little Savage

1959

As El Tiburón

El impostor

1960

As

Los salvajes

1958

As Pedro Matías

Konga Roja

1943

As Federico Robles

Late Afternoon

1949

As Sebastian del Llano

Dos mundos y un amor

1954

As Ricardo Anaya

Rosauro Castro

1950

As Rosauro Castro

Ella y Yo

1951

As Pedro Muñóz

Hell Road

1951

As Pedro Uribe

By the False Door

1950

As Bernardo Celis

Violent Summer

1960

As Francisco Peña

Our Daily Hunger

1960

As Macario Férnandez

Meat in Prison

1952

As Pablo González

Mi candidato

1937

As

El zarco

1959

As

La loca de la casa

1950

As José María Cruz

Los millones de Chaflán

1938

As Antonio

The Littlest Outlaw

1955

As Gen. Torres

The Pearl

1947

As Quino

Rebellion of the Hanged

1954

As Cándido Castro

El tejedor de milagros

1962

As Señor Cura

La cárcel de Cananea

1960

As Pedro

Night Falls

1952

As Marcos Arizmendi

Thirst for Love

1959

As Pedro Ortiz

Fortune carrée

1955

As Igricheff

Entre hermanos

1945

As Ramón Arellano

El indulto

1960

As Lucas Sánchez Parrondo

3 Godfathers

1948

As Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte

Maria Candelaria

1944

As Lorenzo Rafael

The Big Boodle

1957

As Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)

Lucrèce Borgia

1953

As César Borgia

La Bandida

1963

As Roberto Herrera

Wild Flower

1943

As José Luis Castro

The Abandoned

1945

As Juan Gómez

Bugambilia

1945

As Ricardo Rojas

My Son, the Hero

1962

As Cadmo

Enamorada

1946

As Gen. José Juan Reyes

Another Dawn

1943

As Octavio

Maclovia

1948

As José María

Diane

1956

As King Francis I

The Torch

1950

As José Juan Reyes

Soledad's Shawl

1952

As Roque Suazo

El indio

1938

As

Tierra baja

1951

As Manelic

Café Colón

1959

As

Mulata

1954

As Martín

La malquerida

1949

As Esteban

Allá en el bajio

1942

As Juan Hernández

Calibre 44

1960

As Don Pedro

The Hidden One

1956

As Felipe Rojano

Native Drums

1955

As

From Russia with Love

1963

As Ali Kerim Bey

The Conqueror

1956

As Jamuga

Captain Sindbad

1963

As El Kerim

The Fugitive

1947

As A Lieutenant of Police

We Were Strangers

1949

As Armando Ariete

Tulsa

1949

As Jim Redbird

Border River

1954

As General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)

Men and Wolves

1957

As Giovanni

The Vivanco Ladies

1959

As Gen. Inocencio Torrentera

Manuela

1957

As Mario Constanza

Yo pecador

1959

As

Pobre diablo

1940

As Raúl Solares

Canto a mi tierra

1938

As Antonio

La Adelita

1937

As

Beyond All Limits

1959

As Pepe Gamboa

Basket of Mexican Tales

1956

As Carlos Cosio

Fort Apache

1948

As Sgt. Beaufort

Ni sangre ni arena

1941

As Frank

Los olvidados de Dios

1940

As Zenón Rojas

El charro Negro

1940

As Ramón

The Wonderful Country

1959

As Cipriano Castro

Passion Island

1942

As El Toro

The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)

2023

As Self (archive footage)

Mala yerba

1940

As Chuy Rodríguez

Simón Bolívar

1942

As General Briceño Méndez

Francis of Assisi

1961

As The Sultan

La Cucaracha

1959

As Coronel Valentín Razo

My Son, the Hero

1961

As General

Production

Rosauro Castro

1950

As Producer

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